Man City v Leicester TV Highlights, BBC One 10.45pm Manchester City have every player available. Kasper Schmeichel, the Leicester goalkeeper, is not ready to return after a broken foot. • Half of the 14 Premier League games between Cities this season have ended 1-0, including the reverse of this

Watford recorded their sixth win in seven games in the Sky Bet Championship last night to climb to third with a 1-0 victory over Fulham at Vicarage Road. Troy Deeney struck his 15th league goal of the season in the ninth minute after a corner. Bournemouth ended a run of five games without a

Everton will need to overcome the weight of their dismal European history when they face Dynamo Kiev in the Europa League round of 16 next week. Having been ever-present in the top division in one of the continent’s strongest leagues throughout the era of European club competition, which began in

Derby County consolidated their lead at the top of the Sky Bet Championship last night with a 2-0 win at home to Charlton Athletic. Steve McClaren’s team scored both goals in the first 17 minutes. A good run and cross by Darren Bent led to the opener by Jeff Hendrick, who then teed up Jesse

Moving the 2022 World Cup to the winter would force Uefa and the domestic football associations to redraw their season schedules. The option of staging the tournament in January and February is likely to be rejected because it would clash with the Winter Olympics, so it is expected that the

The Barclays Premier League has enjoyed a vintage February, selling itself to broadcasters for astronomical figures and producing a flood of memorable games, and the excitement spread throughout league football at the weekend. The four divisions featured a total of 145 goals from Friday to

Real Madrid could not match their 6-1 victory away to Schalke at the same stage of last season’s Champions League but their 2-0 win against the same opponents in Germany last night all but guaranteed their place in the quarter-finals. That thrashing last February set them en route to a record

Shakhtar Donetsk have travelled 630 miles across Ukraine to escape the military conflict on their doorstep and their journey deep into the Champions League may yet continue after they held Bayern Munich to an unlikely goalless draw last night. Bayern could not make a breakthrough in the first leg

Manchester United will face Arsenal at Old Trafford in the FA Cup quarter-finals in a meeting of the competition’s two most successful clubs. Arsenal, who won a penalty shoot-out between the teams in the 2005 final, joined United on 11 triumphs when they beat Hull City in the climax at Wembley

How long will Sky and BT put up with the haphazard time-keeping prevalent in the Barclays Premier League, given the fortune they pay to televise it? The new rights deal, covering 2016 to 2019, means BT will pay £7.62 million per game and Sky £11.05 million. For Sky that works out at £2,050 per